Answer questions with Copilot - Microsoft Copilot Tutorial

- [Instructor] Let's see how we can streamline our work with Copilot. I'll work from the website, copilot.microsoft.com, but you can feel free to use the Copilot panel in Microsoft Edge or the Copilot tool that's integrated into Windows. Now in this first set of examples, I want to give you ways to use Copilot as a glorified search engine. Why scroll through pages of search results to find the right website to answer your question when Copilot can do all that work for you. So you can ask it a straight up factual question to help you during your workday. So in the chat field at the bottom, I'll ask my question. So maybe I'm planning a meeting, and here's my answer. Now at any time, I can click the New topic button to reset and start a brand new topic. This means the answer will not have any context to do with the last question that I asked. So let's start with something fresh. I might need to brush up on some accounting skills for an upcoming meeting. So I'll ask, what is the double entry system of accounting? And here's my answer. And I wanted to show you this example because sometimes you still don't understand exactly what it's telling you, and that's fine. You can ask Copilot to clarify it or tell it to you in a different way. Now below the response it says one of 10. This tells me that I can ask follow-up questions and it will remember the context of the conversation up to 10 responses. Now I'm not signed in to an account and that number will be different if you do sign in to an account. So the next thing that I type can be related to this answer. So I'll ask Copilot to explain this like I'm five years old. And that just makes it easier to understand. Now I could take it one step further and ask for a good starter book I could read to learn more about this. Now, at any time, you can click Stop Responding. If it's taking too long or if it's typed out an answer and you've gotten all you need from that answer, you can click Stop Responding and it's going to instantly stop so you can move on. Next, I'll click the New topic button to reset. And over the course of my day, there's some more things that I might want to know. I might want to ask my manager if we can get our employees together for a yearly event. My manager might need some good examples of why we should do this. So I want to be ready with some facts. So I'll ask this, what is beneficial about getting employees together for a yearly event? And I purposely spelled beneficial wrong because I wanted to show you that Copilot is smart enough to still recognize what you're asking even with spelling and grammar mistakes. So I'll hit the Return key, and here are some good ideas that I can bring to my boss. Let's try a few more. I'll ask it to give me some ideas for good thank you gifts for a client. Okay, it gave me some good ideas and even links to some products online. Now I'm on question two of 10, so I can ask it to give me some more ideas and continue the conversation. And here are those extra ideas. Now finally, I'll point out again that I am not signed in to an account here. But if you do sign in, even with a free account, you will see a list of recent activity on the right side. So you'll be able to see questions you've asked recently, and you can ask them again. Also, if you sign in to an account, then your conversation limit will be higher as well.